Happy New Year 2020! It was such a fun New Year’s Eve celebration at home. We haven’t welcomed the New Year at our house in the last 5 years. We have 10 family friends and we have a tradition of spending it at one of each houses so we do rotations every year. We also just started a tradition like 3 years ago of having one family sponsor every family a t-shirt for everybody and using the lucky color of the year and also putting our last names on it.

So now that I have shared how we welcome every New Year. I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself again in case you are new to my blog. Hi, my name is Christianne and I am a mom of 3. I’m originally from the Philippines and now living here in the US with my husband and our 3 lovely children with our dog mojo.

My goal this year is to be able to provide y’all an ever green content you can surely use in your everyday life be it for fashion (personal style) which I usually share the most, lifestyle, family and travel. I want to be a good resource person for all those topics I mentioned. Also, I am not usually sharing a lot of family pictures but recently since I became pregnant and have Andi now. The whole family became ok posting in pictures with me. I used to like beg them to have a decent photos that is why you rarely see them on my blog.

I also wanna inspire a lot of mamas out there. I always get this question how I can manage having a full time day job, this part time blog and be a mom of three. I think I have posted this topic before but will get into details in the next few episodes of my blog. Also check out my previous post on how I prepared for the NYE party.

Thank you all so much for your continued support to my blog. Once again, Happy New Year!

Simply,’

Christianne

This is my last blog post for this year. Doing reflections on how this year was for my blog and how I have been to y’all. I know I fell short this year since I became pregnant I know I slacked so much. I lost my consistency in posting on my blog and also the ever green content that I should have been sharing with all of you.

This year started not so good as I was still recovering from the lost of my dad back in November last year. Then a month after that I found out I was pregnant and had morning sickness and that really threw me off on my routine. I really lost myself this year and was just posting a lot of fluff here and there just to have something to post. I am just being with y’all. I did give something good for the pregnant ladies like me back then.

This 2020 I have a lot of goals for myself and my blog. I will do my best for y’all to be the best resource for all the good deals for fashion, lifestyle, motherhood and travel content I may have that I know will be beneficial for everyone.

Here are some of the Highlights I have this year… Not so much though It was pretty much about my pregnancy…. So thankful to have baby Andi. I was really thinking I was done when I had Aidan. I only wanted two if I have a boy and a girl already but hubby convinced me good and so thankful for that.

February was the month I announced here that I was pregnant here…

March was my gender reveal, found out we were having a girl….

April to August just pretty much sharing a lot of pregnancy updates and a lot of maternity outfit inspirations.

and then August I popped Andi out…

I will make sure this coming 2020 y’all will find a lot of ever green content from me. Thank y’all for sticking out with me. See you next year!

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

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COUNT YOUR STARS CARDIGAN

LOUNGE WEAR SET SIMILAR HERE

MAMA BEAR MUG SIMILAR HERE

NY AND COMPANY SLIPPERS

WAYFAIR COFFEE TABLE

THRESHOLD AREA RUG

In two more days kids will be on Christmas break and that means a lot of snuggling and cuddling at home. Also we wanna entertain them as well and ourselves included. We have watch a lot of them already and wanna share with you guys if you are looking for one.

On Netflix: Good watching with little kids….

KLAUS this is heart warming.

THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES there will be part 2 next year, this one really entertains us all.

CHRISTMAS BREAK-IN good family love movie

For a Rom-com fanatic like me….

A CHRISTMAS PRINCE, A CHRISTMAS PRINCE THE ROYAL WEDDING AND A CHRISTMAS PRINCE THE ROYAL BABY they are all connected so make sure to watch them all.

another one is THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS this one is really cute.

on DISNEY PLUS

We really enjoyed watching NOELLE and THE SANTA CLAUS.

This ones are really good with the kids and it is funny too. Perfect for the whole family.

on PRIME:

They have all the HOME ALONE movies and it was still really entertaining and we have been watching it over and over again together with THE GRINCH.

So if you are on a hunt of a good Christmas movies specially with your kids, these are the ones that we really loved and I am sure you will too.

And if you are still looking for last minutes Christmas gift ideas, check out my post here.

Thank you so much for stopping by and see you again next time.

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

I have been getting a lot of messages saying I already bounced back. To tell you all the truth, It may look it but I am still a work in progress. I still cannot fit my wedding ring, I still have the mommy tummy lose skin, this leggings is just so helpful hiding it here very well.

The reason I wanna talk about this is that, I want you all to know first we are all beautiful in any size and shape. We all wanna look good and feel better, and making sure we doing it for our self and then for others (my kids and family) They all depend on us and if we are not healthy how can we give them all.

And then I got pregnant, I started healthy and lost it on my 3 months before giving. My OB GYN kept on telling me that my baby is smaller than my other 2 babies and then I got scared so I thought if I eat more and also a lot of sweets and I literally ate everything. So fast forward 3 months postpartum. I went for my annual primary care check up. Then we found out that my cholesterol is slightly elevated. She recommended low fat diet and exercise, then it got to me that I really need to work on my health and get it back.

That being said I am really working on getting at least 3 times a week. It is really a struggle even though we have help I still fall short sometimes. I also working on meal prepping so I already have my food prepared which makes it even easier. We just lost my father last year because of heart attack and that made me think I really need to work on my health to be able to spend more time with family.

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AMAZON ESSENTIALS SPORTS BRA

ALO YOGA LEGGINGS

CHAMPION PULLOVER SWEATER WITH HOOD

ASICS RUNNING SHOES

I started my fitness journey when I got introduced with Body boss method when I partnered with them, And ever since then I started working on it and I feel the best having all the energy to be able to play with the kids. Not just then they launched their meal plan.

I got into a good habit after that and now I just have to get it back. Even better this time. My husband and I are helping each other so we can get to workout. I am not really a morning person so I workout when I get home. My husband will watch Andi so I can workout and the we switch so he can also work out. Luckily if she is sleep then both of us can workout together then Adi and Aidan will also go to the gym.

We are lucky to have a home gym. The previous owner added this extension at the back of the house and left us with all their strengthening machine. We just added the threadmill and elliptical, TV for Zumba and the punching bag.

I have not gotten back to my pre pregnancy weight but I am feeling stronger and energetic. I am slowly getting it back and that really makes me feel good.

I hope I was able to inspire you all specially the mamas out there that working out is not just vanity. It is really a good lifestyle than you can give to yourself and your family.

Thank you all for stopping by and see you again on the next blog post.

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

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DIY Personalized Christmas Ornaments so you can feel that you are really at home with your loved ones during this Holiday season. So I got this flocked Pre-lit Christmas tree at Walmart last year and I am loving it so much. Easy to install and plus it already has a light. I just added some ornaments and this plaid ribbon and viola we are done.

The only thing about the flocked Christmas tree are the white “snow” that falls down. I was full of it when I was installing this but look how beautiful it came out. So to add our personal touched, I thought of taking pictures using our polaroid camera and it really was a joyful feeling. This is baby Andi’s first Christmas and we want it to be very special.

And if you decide to do this as well. Then you will feel your personal connection with your Christmas decor because you know it is yours. You can also just print some of your precious moments from your camera too and you can add ribbons if you like.

I hope I was able to give some good example on this post for you. Also if you missed the last post on deals and other gift guide to feel the bottom of your Christmas tree here it is.

Thank you so much for stopping by and see you again soon.

Simply,

Christianne

Last weekend was a very fun experience. One of my co workers have given me 6 free ticket to Dutch Wonderland. I have never heard of it before but she was so excited to tell me a lot about it. It was just unfortunate for her that her ticket was expiring the day we used it so instead of her not using it at all. She said she will feel better if she will make other people happy by using it. Bless her heart (so when I came back I gave her souvenir from there).

If you live around Pennsylvania, like Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey or Even New York. It is located at Lancaster. It is a very nice are because when I googled it. They have a lot of family friendly fun places around there.

Now let me tell you about our experience at Dutch Wonderland. This is perfect for families with little kids. If you don’t know, my kids are 9, 6 and a newborn. All their rides there are kids and family friendly. The kids really enjoyed it. It is unlike when you go to those famous theme park where a lot of grown ups go. When we go to those places, there are only few options for the kids that they can ride. In here, every ride is for them!

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They even have this sweet and delicious frozen banana covered with chocolate. Calling all banana and chocolate lovers out there!

They even have cool and different shows like this one. These guys did a lot of high diving. It was one splashy show and everyone enjoyed it.

They also have this cool exploration island. You can imagine yourself being in the Jurassic park on this side and a lot of sand that the kids can explore with their hands and play like how the kids will do.

I hope I was able to give you another place to go in case you are looking for something new. This is highly recommended by my whole family. The kids really asked us to take them here at least once a year. As much as we wanna come here more often. This is 2 and half hours away from us and we live in Southern Maryland. It was worth the drive.

Thank you so much for stopping by and maybe this weekend you might wanna check them out. The tickets are low now and they are only open on weekends this Fall.

Check out my previous post to see all new Fall trends you migh wanna try wearing this season.

Simply,

Christianne